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In the Eye of the Storm
It's not the way you normally picture Dr. Doom. Dressed in a shirt and tie, sitting at a desk, staring into a computer monitor. The face is familiar, as is the shaved head and the chiseled profile that wouldn't look out of place on an ancient Roman coin. But there's something missing: the rain jacket and cap combo that makes him a dead ringer for Bruce Willis in Unbreakable, not to mention the wind gusts, pelting rain and the sight of the ocean rearing up behind him, getting ready to gallop onto shore. That's how most people are used to seeing Jim Cantore, the Weather Channel's most recognizable on-air personality. For almost 20 years, he's been at the scene of almost every major hurricane to hit the United States. Andrew. Ivan. Katrina. Hence the Dr. Doom tag.
But it's August and the tropics are only now beginning to heat up, so Cantore is in the studio, preparing his computer graphics for the nightly show he co-anchors with Alexandra Steele. To a casual observer, the screen looks like what you'd normally see on your nightly network weathercast, but to Cantore it contains all the action and drama of a great, never-ending novel. Told that Hurricane Danielle, still somewhere over the middle of the Atlantic, has been downgraded to a tropical storm, Cantore's head jerks up. "A tropical storm? How can that be? It was over a hundred miles [per hour] yesterday!" Then his gaze shifts back to the screen. He studies it some more. He's convinced Danielle will re-intensify and track to the north-northwest. "It looks like I might be in Bermuda in a few days," he says. (The storm eventually passed east of the island as a Category 2 hurricane, but because it never threatened land, Cantore didn't cover it.)
In an age of TV personalities playacting at being serious journalists, Cantore comes off as the real thing, intensely passionate about what he does, committed to knowing the science of weather, with surprisingly little patience for the entertainment side of the business. "It's the weather, bro," he says, using one of his favorite forms of address. "Global warming, blizzards, hurricanes. You don't have to hype it."
Cantore was raised in White River Junction, Vermont, and learned at a young age that Mark Twain was right. If you don't like the weather in New England, all you have to do is wait a few minutes. Fall foliage, snowstorms, northeasters: Cantore's love of the outdoors-and sports-kept him in the middle of it all. "I played baseball, football and hockey," says the 46-year-old, who still has the compact, muscled build of a fullback.
He got the only career advice he'd ever need from his father. "Senior year of high school, I'm sitting at the kitchen table, and my Dad says, 'What are you going to do with your life?' " remembers Cantore, who didn't really have an answer for his old man. "So he says, 'Why don't you study weather?' You're a freak for snow, waiting for the first snowfall of the season, running out to shovel the walk for your Mom.' " Cantore smiles. "That's one of those great moments with your Dad."
Cantore, the oldest of four adopted children, went to Lyndon State College, only 70 miles away, because it was "close to Mom's home cooking." After graduating in 1986, he headed to Atlanta and his first job with a four-year-old start-up cable channel that was trying to do for weather what Ted Turner and CNN had done for news: turn it into a 24-hour television event. "I call the Weather Channel 'The Little Engine That Could,' " says Cantore, recalling the bare-bones programming of those early days. "I used to show maps and talk for 25 minutes out of every hour, four hours a night. That's 100 minutes of talking in front of a map every day." After a few years of that, Cantore was ready to "go out and play."
The only problem was that he was still learning his job. "When I got to the Weather Channel, I didn't know shit about the tropics," he confesses. But he applied himself. "I think it comes from being a competitive athlete as a kid," says Cantore. "I just want to get better all the time and, with weather, that might help save a life." So he watched and listened and learned.
By the time Hurricane Andrew was churning over the Atlantic in 1992, the young meteorologist felt confident enough in his forecasting skills to predict the storm's future track. When he got off the air, a colleague called him over and told him he had Bob Sheets, at the time the director of the National Hurricane Center, on the phone. "I was, like, 'Get out of here,'" says Cantore. "But when I get on the phone, it really was him. He says, 'Did you just extend the forecast out 72 hours and say that Andrew was going to make landfall somewhere between Miami and the Carolinas?' " Cantore told him he had. 'Don't ever do that again,' " he recalls Sheets yelling at him. " 'I've had every emergency manager from the Carolinas down calling me!' " Noting that he's telling that story on the 18th anniversary of Andrew devastating much of South Miami-Dade County-it was one of the most powerful storms ever to make landfall in the U.S.- Cantore concludes, "I knew that day that people were listening, and that my tropical updates didn't suck."
And he would soon get his wish to go out and play. After hitting South Florida as a monster Category 5 hurricane, Andrew, still a powerful Cat 3, made a right-hand turn in the Gulf of Mexico and shot up toward the Louisiana coast. Cantore and a crew were sent to cover the second landfall. "It was 3 a.m. and the storm blew my AC unit into my room-and we were on the 15th floor," Cantore remembers. "I woke up my producer and said, 'We're going live!'"
That broadcast proved to be Cantore's first as an on-the-spot storm tracker. It also coincided with his first smoke. No surprise to hear it was the old postmaster who introduced him to cigars and, for that matter, the pleasures of Scotch. "My Dad is a Scotch drinker and one night he offered me some," says Cantore. "He knows I'm not a big fan, so he says, 'Here, it'll taste better with a cigar.' And it did. I think it was a Macanudo; that was my first one." He was 28, and his career was just beginning to pick up speed.
"He's the face of hurricanes," says Weather Channel producer Howard Sappington. "And hurricane season draws our biggest audience." That combination-the Atlantic pitching tightly packed haymakers at the U.S. coastline and Cantore standing out on the beach, telling the rest of us to take cover-has earned Cantore fans all over the country. Though it did take him a while to realize a meteorologist could have that effect on people. It first hit him in 1998, when he was standing on a beach in North Carolina, head down, taking notes, waiting to go on the air. "Just then," recalls Cantore, "my producer says to me, 'We're going to have to move some of these people.' I have no idea what he's talking about, so I turn around and there are 400 people standing behind me. I felt like a rock star."
Cantore's appeal isn't lost on his coworkers. "He's got a passion for the weather and people identify with him," says Michelle Birnbaum, a producer at the channel. "Men want to be his friend, women think he's hot and kids kind of look up to him. I've seen a family wait four hours in a storm for an autograph."
Sappington has a name for the kind of adulation Cantore inspires. "I call it the X-factor," says the producer, making the symbol by crossing his arms in front of his face. "When you're with Cantore, you never know what to expect." An example? "We were covering Hurricane Dennis in Pensacola [in 2005] and we kept going into this Greek restaurant for lunch. After the storm, there was no power, but this Greek guy had a gas stove, so he invited us back and cooked filet mignon and lobster for 15 of our crew. We had a feast. That's the X-factor."
Everybody at the Weather Channel, it seems, has an X-factor story. Meteorologist Chris Warren: "We had just covered a storm in North Carolina and were driving back to the airport when we stopped at a Taco Bell. As we're leaving, the manager runs in the back and brings Cantore this cake and says, 'Here, this is for you.' Where did he get a cake? They don't serve cake!" Producer Jim Gagne: " We're walking out of a restaurant in Barrow, Alaska—which is the northernmost city in the United States—and a guy yells, 'Hey, Jim Cantore!' How does that happen? I don't even think they have TV there."
Cantore is quick to deflect much of the attention he receives. He shrugs off his hurricane-superman persona—"I've never been out in a 100-mile-an-hour wind; a satellite truck can't broadcast under those conditions"— and insists that, for all the focus on him, his job description remains pretty simple: get people out of harm's way.
It's a principle Cantore takes seriously. When Hurricane Katrina was rolling toward the Gulf Coast in 2005, Cantore was sent to Gulfport, Mississippi, to ride out the storm and report on it. He looked for the highest elevation he could find. He was told the Armed Forces Retirement Home was 27 feet above sea level. That estimate proved to be about seven feet too optimistic. "All of a sudden, there's three feet of water—and climbing—in the parking lot," says Cantore. "Cars are starting to look like bobbers. I thought a drain had backed up, but it was the storm surge. I couldn't believe it." The worst realization was yet to come. The surge was going to overtake the bottom floor of the retirement home. "All of a sudden, it wasn't about TV anymore," he says. "It was about getting people and beds upstairs. Ever pick up one of those wheelchairs with the battery pack and carry it up a flight of stairs? Dude..."
That was a rough season for Cantore, and not just because of the unprecedented havoc caused by Katrina. While he was on the road, his home life was falling apart. He'd been married since 1990 to Tamra, a petite blonde he'd met at the Weather Channel. They had two kids; Christina, born in 1993, and Ben, in 1995. They were, in many ways, a model family. The father, handsome and strong; mom, loving and caring. One day in 1997, Tamra complained that she couldn't keep her arms from shaking. She went to the doctor, and got hit with a Cat 5 diagnosis. She was suffering from early onset Parkinson's, the same disease that afflicts the actor Michael J. Fox. "Can you imagine a snippet of your life taken away every day, [like] losing the ability to tie your shoes?" Cantore asks.
Around the same time, the couple had noticed that 18-month-old Ben wasn't developing as quickly as other children his age. He wasn't walking yet, and could barely form words. Like most parents, they told themselves it didn't necessarily mean anything, but better to get it checked out. The verdict on Ben came back equally distressing. The child had Fragile X Syndrome, a form of inherited mental impairment caused by a defect in the FMR1 gene on the X chromosome.
More tests confirmed that Ben's sister Christina also had the condition. It hadn't been detected in her previously because, with girls, who essentially have a spare X, the disease tends to manifest itself in more subtle ways: attention deficit disorder, shyness, inability to make eye contact. In boys, it usually takes a more severe form resembling autism.
Cantore became the family's primary caregiver. When he was in town, he drove the kids to doctors' appointments, did laundry, ran errands. When he wasn't home, he suffered silently. "I kept it private for many years," says Cantore, "but it was good to come out with it. It was good for me, good for them." He gave the story to a newspaper reporter in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 2004. But talking about it couldn't save the marriage. The strain just got to be too much.
"I like to be in control of everything," says Cantore, "but I found out I can't control everything." It's been a humbling lesson, and a tough one. "People ask me if I'm ever afraid out there [on assignment] and I say no, the only storm that scares me is the Fragile X storm," he confides. "Both the kids go to school. Christy is doing well. Ben will need to be supervised all of his life. That's the storm that never ends."
Cantore, who is involved in charitable work on behalf of both Parkinson's and Fragile X research, says his relationship with his ex-wife and kids is good: "I have to be there for them, help out however I can." Then he takes a long pause. "You know, if I could trade everything I've done..." It's not a sentence he needs to finish.
His busy work schedule has been a blessing, giving Cantore something else on which to concentrate. In addition to his five-night-a-week show and his remote broadcasts, he hosts two series-"Storm Stories," which premiered in 2003 and revisits intense weather events, and "Cantore Stories," which began airing in early 2010. The latter is a favorite project of his, taking him to extreme weather destinations—like Barrow, Alaska, or Key West, Florida—when there isn't some catastrophe looming. "To show up on the Gulf Coast when it's really nice out and talk to the people who live there is great," says Cantore. "It gives people a chance to see a little lighter side of him," agrees executive producer Sappington. "It's not that, 'Oh no, what are you doing here' reaction he normally gets." (The Dr. Doom thing again; signs playfully imploring Cantore to get lost-and take his hurricane with him-are ubiquitous whenever a major storm threatens.)
As the face of the Weather Channel, Cantore can be seen in as many as 100 million homes, and has gained even greater exposure from NBC Universal's purchase of the Weather Channel in 2008. He's done weather reporting from the National Hockey League's annual outdoor Winter Classic game, worked as a correspondent during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver (where he discovered that, yes, Al Michaels is also a fan) and has even pinch-hit on occasion for "Today Show" weatherman Al Roker.
If it sounds like Cantore might be on the verge of going Hollywood, or at the very least standing in Rockefeller Plaza asking Justin Bieber what it is about him that makes all the girls scream, think again. "I'm the last of a dying breed," he says. "I just like doing the weather, bro."
What Cantore will do the rest of hurricane season depends on where the blips on the screen take him, but if the steering currents cut him some slack, chances are he'll point his steel gray Toyota Tacoma in the direction of the cabin he owns in the north Georgia woods. Probably take his kids. Definitely pack some cigars.
Cantore is partial to Arturo Fuente, Romeo y Julieta and Padrón's 1964 Anniversary Series ("Probably my favorite cigars right now"), but, as with his job, he doesn't mind leaving his comfort zone. Recently, a neighbor gave Cantore some candelas. "They didn't have labels on them," says the storm tracker, describing the green-leaf smokes, "but I know they were from Cuba. They were pretty good."
Since he never lights up on assignment—it's difficult to enjoy a cigar when you're standing on a beach, getting a sandblast facial courtesy of Mother Nature—the cabin has become his smoking retreat. It's also the place where he indulges his inner grill master. "Steak, chicken, fish—it doesn't matter. I'm a carnivore."
Cantore's two favorite ways to relax complement each other perfectly. "After a nice dinner," he muses, "a cigar is the grand finale to the evening." His standard ritual, enacted amid the Japanese maples he's planted at his weekend getaway, recalls that first smoke with his Dad. "I'll just grab some Macallan and a cigar," he says. "At that moment, I know the world is in harmony."
Gaspar González is a Miami-based writer and filmmaker.


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- David Sloane says his great-grandfather, Thomas Edison, would have liked efficient bulbs
- He says new efficiency law to take effect January 1, was in line with Edison's futurism
- He says Edison would have disdained Congress' recent vote to defund law for nine months
- Sloane: Technological, green, entrepreneurial advances are Edisonian
As I research my family history, preparing a book about my grandmother Madeleine Edison Sloane, "Edison's Daughter," I occasionally come across holiday pictures of Glenmont. This was my great-grandfather Thomas Edison's home in West Orange, New Jersey, and in the pictures it's decorated for the Christmas and New Years' Holidays. Thanks to his invention, the home bursts with light in those pictures; the radiance is almost palpable.
All the bulbs were incandescent, of course. There wasn't any other kind, and candles would have been way too dangerous. Light and safety, and low cost, were all great features of Edison's light bulbs.
But come January 1, when a light-bulb law setting new efficiency standards is set to take effect, it's out with those old incandescents and in with the new. My great grandfather's 100-watt incandescent will be replaced with new energy-efficient versions, including CFLs, LEDs, and -- yes -- new and improved incandescent bulbs. When better lighting is fully implemented throughout our country, we'll be saving $13 billion a year in electricity costs and we'll eliminate the need for 30 large power plants, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental advocacy group.
And my great-grandfather wouldn't have it any other way.
For the record, Thomas Edison was a patriot, he was a futurist, and he was green. Edison's concern after the turn of the last century was with pollution and nonrenewable resources, not with freezing technological change at the level of 1879.
He wanted the Swiss to harness water power in 1911; he wanted Ford and Firestone to recognize that oil was nonrenewable but the sun was infinite and free; he wanted to use goldenrod—a roadside weed—to serve as a cheap and independent source to replace imported foreign rubber. He wanted everything that today's eco-opposition want to undercut with ill-considered political posturing.
Edison would have spurned the recent sleight of hand by Congress that leaves the new lighting standard -- under the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007-- on the books but takes away its funding for nine months. How can inventor-entrepreneurs like Edison make a profit if every time they try to make a technological advance some nut in Congress pulls the rug out from under the them and their breakthroughs? And if investors are going to put their bets on more efficient technology, they have to know that a congressional holiday on common sense will not come along to undercut demand for their product.
Thomas Edison would have been the first to support technological advances, that's the real, obvious message of his 1,000-plus patents. Let's invent the future. He would have embraced new tough standards as a way to move our antiquated energy policies forward, helping people save money when they most need it, and reducing carbon pollution that puts our future at risk.
So where would Edison be tonight? He'd be in the lab inventing a better light bulb. Engineers sharing Edison's legacy are working on these better bulbs now—and with the advances in chemistry and materials since Edison's time—they're creating better lights and lower costs with more efficiency and far less pollution.
Let's also not forget that most old incandescent bulbs manufactured today are imports from China. You remember them: The same folks who sent Louisiana and Mississippi polluted sheet-rock to rebuild their hurricane-ravaged houses and are using the profits to buy up American debt.
Domestic sources of light would have been Edison's first priority. Upon his winter visit to the Edison winter home in Florida, Seminole Lodge, he would have heralded news of unemployed former NASA scientists being scooped up by Florida's Lighting Science Group to advance initiatives in LED technology. More jobs would have been another good result of technology in Edison's point of view.
The future of the light bulb is bright. You can take that as straight goods from Edison's own great-grandchildren. Drop by my house and enjoy the two lighted deer on my porch roof. They sparkle with light. They are cheap to run. The lights are LEDs. And I love them. To my eye, they are just as bright as the ones in the Edison family's Glenmont home at Christmas, maybe brighter.
When Edison died in 1931, the world found that it could not turn off the electricity to honor him for even a minute because it had grown so dependent on electricity in Edison's lifetime—they had to settle for just dimming the lights.
As you turn off your lights December 31, remember that when you switch on the lights in 2012 they will be brighter and cheaper than ever, and safer. And they will also help America reclaim its place as a leader in technology, invention, and entrepreneurialism. That's Edisonian.
Let's do our best in 2012 to help his technological children succeed in doing just that.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Patrick Miller scored 23 points and Jay Harris added a career-high 19, but the Tennessee State men's basketball team fell to Belmont, 73-71, on Thursday night in the Curb Event Center.
Miller finished 8-for-21 (38 percent) from the field and four assists while Harris was 5-of-9 (56 percent) and 7-for-7 from the charity stripe.
M.J. Rhett recorded his 13th double-double this season with 10 points and a personal-best 19 rebounds.
True freshman Jamonte Graham also finished with 10 points and his 4-for-8 line helped Tennessee State (3-24, 2-11 OVC) shoot 42.2 percent for the game.
Belmont (20-8, 11-2 OVC) was paced by J.J. Mann's 21 points and Reece Chamberlain added 19.
Strong shooting (60 percent) and five Tennessee State turnovers allowed the Bruins to take an early 18-7 lead. Nick Smith nailed BU's third three of the game at the 13:12 mark to end the run, prompting TSU head coach Travis Williams to burn a timeout.
Later in the period, Miller hit a contested triple and Chaed Wellian was gifted an easy lay-up on TSU's next trip down the floor. This time, it was Belmont head coach Rick Byrd's turn to take a timeout to regroup with his team up, 25-17 with just over eight minutes to play before halftime.
The Tigers continued their charge after the stoppage and a Miller layup at the 6:22 mark capped a 13-0 TSU scoring stretch that put Big Blue down by just two, 25-23.
The Bruins finally woke up from their five-minute drought and quickly went back up by seven. However, a three-pointer by Harris with a minute to go got the Tigers within one, 34-33, before BU drained three straight to head into the locker room with a four-point cushion.
Harris led the Tigers with 11 points during the first 20 minutes, and seven first half boards from Rhett gave TSU a 19-12 advantage on the glass.
The Tigers came out of the break strong, and an 8-2 run that lasted the first four minutes of the period had them in front for the first time all night at 41-39.
BU fought back and scored nine straight to re-take the lead, 48-41, before Williams called time.
The Tigers were still down nine when Miller and Rhett each made a pair of freebies to make the score 61-56. The hoops made TSU 11-of-12 from the charity stripe with seven minutes to play (92 percent).
TSU was still down five with 2:46 to go when Harris converted a layup, was fouled, and made the ensuing free throw to put the Tigers down by just two, 67-65.
That proved to be the closest TSU could get, as the Tigers couldn't string together consecutive baskets down the stretch.
TSU crushed Belmont on the boards, 41-27, but had 15 turnovers.
Tennessee State will have a full week off before squaring off against SIUE on Feb. 20 for Senior Night. Tip-off for that contest is scheduled for 7 p.m.


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Ellefson states: "Metal music has been our life and even our livelihoods. So this will be a cool opportunity for us to perform some of our favorite songs together for the fans and pay homage to the movement as a whole."
Owens says: "Now this is about having fun with some friends, and just playing some fun, kick-ass metal! I can't wait to have a few beers with my friends in Chile!"
HAIL! is expected to perform tracks from MEGADETH, SEPULTURA and JUDAS PRIEST along with classics from AC/DC, BLACK SABBATH, DEEP PURPLE, METALLICA, VENOM and IRON MAIDEN.
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Jan. 22 - Santiago, Chile - Rock & Guitarras
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Jan. 24 - Concepcion, Chile - Havana Club
Jan. 25 - Puerto Montt, Chile - Arena Puerto Montt
Jan. 27 - Antofagasta, Chile - Rock & Soccer
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TROY -- After a nearly four-month respite from the case, the trial of Democratic Board of Elections Commissioner Edward McDonough will pick up again on Tuesday after previously seeing his first end in a mistrial back in March. But not too much has changed for McDonough, who is again being represented by attorney Brian Premo, as he still faces 38 counts of second-degree forgery and 36 counts of second-degree possession of a forged instrument for his alleged actions in the 2009 Working Families Party primary. According to Premo, he doesn't expect much to be different in this trial and speculated the trial could last around three to four weeks. He would not divulge much other information about the case but said his position regarding McDonough's innocence still stands. "Bottom line, we're going to defend the case the way we believe the evidence is going to be warranted," Premo said. McDonough was tried alongside former City Councilman Michael LoPorto, who was acquitted in July on 29 counts of second-degree possession of a forged instrument, but the case ended in a deadlocked jury. It has been a costly case for the county, though as County Spokesperson Chris Meyer said the county is appealing a payment to Special Prosecutor Trey Smith, associate counsel Matt Hug and former FBI agent and handwriting analyst Alan Robillard. The payments awarded by the court, Meyer said, exceeded $127,000, in addition to a payment of $155,350, putting the cost of the first trial over $275,000. The appeal has stalled as Myer said Smith has refused to allow County Attorney Steve Pechenik to review his trial court records, which were sealed at Smith's request. "Those records would contain the prior billing requests and itemization of time spent on this case as submitted to Judge [George] Pulver, which Mr. Smith declined to furnish to the county previously," Meyer said. "Normally the county would receive this information but Mr. Smith had refused to release it and is continuing to block access." Smith said he had offered his timesheets to the county under the condition they would be kept confidential but said the county refused that offer. He said he has seen other district attorneys and other defense attorney's be afforded the same assurance. "For them to say this is all a delay and appeal because I would not give them my records is disingenuous," Smith said. Myers said such a promise would not be possible as he said the county cannot agree to exempt any documents for FOIL laws. "He is serving as the district attorney and these documents would be subject to all FOIL laws," Meyer said. "It is not our place to shield them." Meyer compared Smith's payments to that of Robert Becher's, who acted as special district attorney in the 18-year-old murder case of Rosemary Crossier, where Scott Chaplin was found guilty of murdering Crosier and George Mott III was acquitted. The two were tried separately. "His fee for handling the grand jury investigation through two murder trials was approximately $44,000 of which approximately $10,000 was for reimbursement of documented disbursements of money that he paid initially," Meyer said. Smith refused to comment on the comparison, calling Becher a friend and that his name doesn't need to be dragged into the situation. "You can't compare those two things," Smith said. "It's absurd." Hug was also brought back on as Smith's associate in the case, according to Meyer, and the two had previously agreed to be paid $75 an hour each, where Smith was originally $125 per hour. Meyer said he does not expect those figures to increase. There are also two other people, former City Council President Clem Campana and Councilman Gary Galuski, D-District 6, still awaiting to hear when their trial dates will be set. Campana was charged with one count of first-degree falsifying business record and four counts of illegal voting, both felonies, and one count of conspiracy to promote or prevent an election, a misdemeanor. Glauski is charged with four felonies for leaving parts of absentee ballot applications blank. Andrew Beam may also be reached at 270-1294.
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Emma Thompson Confirms Return as Trelawney in "Deathly Hallows"
Mar 25, 2010
Thompson Interviews
Earlier this week, we told you about an article in the Tatler in which Cleménce Poésy implied that Emma Thompson (Professor Trelawney) would be in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows." Thompson has confirmed in an interview with CBBC's Newsround that she will be reprising the role of the Divination teacher; when asked whether she knew if she would return for the last Harry Potter film, Thompson exclaimed, "I am, I'm in it, I've done it! I've already done it!" Quotage:
Interviewer: Why were people expecting that you weren't going to be in it?
Emma Thompson: I don't know, someone got a bee in their bonnet and said she's not doing it and that was completely false.
Interviewer: So we can confirm that you'll definitely in the final film?
Emma Thompson: I am in it, I've done two days on it and my sister's in it as well, actually! [Joking] And my next door neighbour. You're probably in it as well! If you look very carefully I'm sure you'll pop up somewhere.
The interview was otherwise devoted to promoting the upcoming "Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang," which will be released in the U.K. tomorrow, the 26th of March. Thompson wrote the screenplay and additionally stars as the main character. The actress commented on her enjoyment of working alongside a generally young cast who are "fully present and there," as well as her profound dislike of the process behind the Nanny McPhee mask. The interview on the CBBC website is only available to those in the U.K. and can be found at this link.
Thanks to MuggleNet for the heads up!


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Looks like the $2 convenience fee for those who pay online or by telephone has now been scraped. Good to see Verizon listening to customer feedback on this. It really was a bad idea to begin with. Customers were already talking about having a mail-in your bill month to overload Verizon with mail processing. Here is the official statement from Verizon:
Verizon Wireless has decided it will not institute the fee for online or telephone single payments that was announced earlier this week
The company made the decision in response to customer feedback about the plan, which was designed to improve the efficiency of those transactions. The company continues to encourage customers to take advantage of the numerous simple and convenient payment methods it provides.
"At Verizon, we take great care to listen to our customers. Based on their input, we believe the best path forward is to encourage customers to take advantage of the best and most efficient options, eliminating the need to institute the fee at this time," said Dan Mead, president and chief executive officer of Verizon Wireless.


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chalkboard DIY
I painted the wall above our desk with chalkboard paint. It was a disappointment
initially, I taped off and dry brushed but those darn textured walls. I ended up
with messy, leaky edges. So, to avoid a repeat of this, I measured 1/4" all around
the rectangle, and filled it in by hand with a small brush. As you can see, I
haven't finished the bottom edge yet, tonight though. Probably, maybe I will.
All those cords have got to find a way to get organized too!
A couple more gifts my husband received for his birthday. I guess birthdays are
sort of a big deal around here. I'm a planner so I start buying little things
a month in advance. A pack of playing cards and a vintage Swivelier clamp lamp. He likes them.
Does anyone else iron tea towels, that's not weird, right? They always come out of the dryer so wrinkly, how could I not?
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I just love chalkboard, i have 3 bedrooms at home with some chalkboard, and before that i used to keep all the posts i see to make diy with it. So i have posted it on my blog with reference to yours... i couldn´t resist....ReplyDelete
Your room looks great, even with a unruly bottom chalkboard border ;)ReplyDelete
Where did you find the fabulous playing cards? I've been wanting a set since I first heard about them!
I iron my tea towels too, it drives me mad when the edges come out all weird!ReplyDelete
it looks good! And I don't iron my towels.. but I do iron sheets & pillow cases. I can't stand aleeping on wrinkles!ReplyDelete
Your room looks very good and organized : ) .ReplyDelete
love the chalkboard wall! chalkboard paint is so cool. :) thanks for inspiring mine to use some in my own home soon, too!ReplyDelete
I love your office. I could easily work away there.ReplyDelete
It looks great :)ReplyDelete
I have been meaning to stop in and tell you that I am still keeping up with you and checking up on you and your boys---and your house!
All looks well!
Your chalkboard looks great! There is nothing with ironing teatowels, it's everyone else that doesn't that has a problem, we teatowel ironers are perfectly normal!ReplyDelete
jenn! it looks so rad!!ReplyDelete
i painted my bedroom door last night with chalkboard paint...so pleased with the outcome!
your space is so inspiring..i can't get enough! :)
btw..those cookies?! GONE. thank you!!!
Your chalkboard and workspace looks great.ReplyDelete
Btw, I iron my tea towels too and sometimes even pillowcases. They just get ridiculously wrinkly. Totally not weird.
Love your blog!
Looks great Jennifer! I saw some more pics of your room on I art u, and really like what you've done...so spotlessly tidy! Puts my mess to shame. I don't iron tea towels, but that's because I don't have any that are worthy of an iron! I love yours....where did the triangle one come from?ReplyDelete
what a great idea! really love it... and that organization! amazing!ReplyDelete
Haha, that's so funny, I was just thinking last night that I want to steam my wrinkly tea towels! Not weird at all. ;)ReplyDelete
I love how much of style comes through all of your home. You're an excellent editor!ReplyDelete
Looking forward to seeing what you come up with for the cords so I can, um, borrow it...ReplyDelete
Black and white, wood, the chalkboard and the Eames chairs... looks great, just my style!ReplyDelete
this office space is so amazing. its pretty much exactly what I would want, but alas, we have concrete walls above where our desks are so our chalkboard/white boards are stick on or velcroed to the wall.ReplyDelete
Totally in love with the tea towels and I second the request about where the triangle one came from. I totally wish I had time to iron my tea towels. Or at least my bedding :(
This looks great!ReplyDelete
We have a wall in our dining room that is already black that we were thinking of painting with chalkboard paint.
Do you have any trouble writing on it with textured walls?
We've been waiting to try out the chalkboard paint because my husband thinks we won't be able to write on it if the wall is textured.
I love tea towels. I also LOVE that DIY chalkboard area...looks EXCELLENT.ReplyDelete
super fab! now you have a great place to write notes where you def won't miss themReplyDelete
the room looks fantastic!!!ReplyDelete
and if i had your collection of killer tea towels, i'd iron them too. ;-)
happy weekend
Do you mind asking where you got your desk? I'm looking for a similar desk that my boyfriend and I can both share (since we only have a small space for a "home office") and that one seems to be the perfect length! Most tables I've been looking at are too short to fit both of us comfortably.ReplyDelete
Love the whole desk area set up.. so organized and pretty! Looks like a calming space to work in.ReplyDelete
FYI - here's how to get a nice, even line when painting. :)ReplyDelete
Oh, and I also need to know more about your desk. :) We are currently living with a temporary solution, but it looks like our dimensions are about the same as yours.ReplyDelete
it looks really great! maybe i need a chalkboard wall.ReplyDelete
also, YES i iron my tea towels.
Cool project! No tea towel ironing here. I don't have the patience...ReplyDelete
Beautiful working space you have! We are planning a chalkboard wall for Landon, thanks for the tips!ReplyDelete
love it. Well done. I always have to come back in with a brush and clean up my edges. I don't think the tape ever gets the job done. Looks fantastic! xoReplyDelete
this is BEAUTIFUL. and i love that you iron tea towels. so sweet and made me smile. :)ReplyDelete
yessss! we wanna know where that desk comes from. I've been looking for one for aaaages and can't find something decent.ReplyDelete
Great looking office!ReplyDelete
If you don't mind, where did you get the digital clock at the right end of the shelf near the clamp light?
Keep up the great posts. :)
Great office!ReplyDelete
Where did you get the LCD clock next to the clamp light? Keep up the great work. :)
your room looks like something out of a magazine!ReplyDelete
hehe I iron everything, since we don't own a dryer every piece of clothes gets wrinkled from hanging outside. (at first it was a chore I disliked to say the least, now I don't even think it's a big deal)
I didnt check to see if anyone else had commented this- but i had the same problem when painting a textured wall. Of course, 5 minutes later i learned that you are supposed to first paint the edges of the tape with the color of your wall (white) and that color bleeds and then you paint the color you want (chalk board black) it doesn't bleed under bc the white already filled those spots where it would have. maybe that will help in the future :)ReplyDelete
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Photographer Brendan Beirne thought he might be lucky to snap a few frames of billionaire James Packer arriving at his Bondi home on Sunday afternoon.
But within five minutes of pulling up outside Packer's multimillion-dollar beachside pad, Beirne was snapping away furiously, not believing the scene that was playing out before his lens.
In photographs captured by Beirne and now seen around the world, Australia's richest man was shown trading blows furiously with the head of the Nine Network, David Gyngell, in a fight that left Packer with a black eye and one of the pair missing a tooth.
"I was in shock. I couldn't believe it because I knew I had shot some pretty powerful pictures of these guys, but it was just so left field, so unexpected," Beirne, who co-owns photo agency Media Mode, told Fairfax Media.
"My jaw just dropped. I thought 'Wow, what just happened?' I had no idea why it had gone down or anything."
In fact, so unexpected was the brawl between the long-term friends that Beirne at first thought they were playfighting.
"I thought 'James has met his mate and they're just having a friendly punch', but I pretty quickly realised that wasn't the case," Beirne said.
He estimated the fight only went for three minutes, during which he took about 300 photographs, 50 of which were "good ones". His colleague Sione Chown, who was across the road, captured part of the fracas on video.
They later sold their work to News Corp Australia for an estimated $200,000.
The afternoon turned out very differently to how Beirne had imagined. He had been tipped off that afternoon that Packer had landed at Sydney Airport after an international trip.
"I knew he had landed at the jet base at his private jet earlier so I had been alerted and I was at the house waiting. I had only been there, like, five minutes," Beirne said.
He saw a man he thought may be Gyngell, who was bare foot and sporting a beard, sitting on the back of a car outside Packer's house, but didn't pay much attention.
"He was sitting at the back of his car on the phone, just kind of hanging around looking relaxed. He didn't look like a threat or anything so I didn't really take any notice of what he was doing," Beirne said.
"Then James comes back and his car parks next to him, and as James gets out of his car and walks towards the house he takes a couple of steps and suddenly spins around and they're on each other. It was just totally out of the blue, very unexpected for me."
The fight ended when Packer walked inside and Gyngell drove off "looking pretty relaxed".
"He didn't look like he had just been in a fight," Beirne said.
Another witness, Chris Walker, had just returned home from lunch when a "crazy person out the front of my house starts screaming obscenities".
"In amongst those obscenities was 'I'm going to knock your block off' and 'I'm out the front of your house' and, of course, that draws anybody to their balcony to see what's going on," Mr Walker said.
From his second-storey balcony across the road from Packer's house, Mr Walker watched as Packer's limousine pulled up beside Gyngell.
"The limo doesn't quite pull up to a stop before the door flings open and Mr Packer's out and Mr Gyngell is running across the footpath, and they are at it like two dogs at each other's throat. Punches flying and people getting hurt," Mr Walker said.
"Then the limo driver jumps out and jumps on Mr Packer's back to try and pull them apart, and the security guy tries to get involved and they all fall down.
Because everyone was lying on Mr Gyngell, he surrendered and groaned and then they all just slowly moved apart. Mr Packer walked inside and My Gyngell walked over to his car and drove off quite sedately."
Asked who instigated the fight, Mr Walker said: "You know what, I think the first punch was thrown on the telephone".
"It was surreal. At night, drunk people fight in Bondi. It's part of our community culture. It's unfortunate, but it's just part of what happens very late at night in Bondi. But 2 o'clock in the afternoon, a celebrity out the front of their place, that's a stretch. That's new," Mr Walker said.
After Mr Packer went inside and Mr Gyngell drove away, a security guard started looking through the grass, possibly for teeth, where the fight had occurred, Mr Walker said.
"He was obviously looking for something very small and, because it was Mr Packer, I doubt whether it was a $2 coin. I did hear someone hit the concrete wall when they all fell down. Later on somebody did find … a denture," he said.
Mr Walker, who works as an executive coach to business people, said it was a very sad day
"It is very sad for leadership in Australia that two people who are supposed to be icons haven't got the wherewithal to take this private," he said.
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Wild Colorado: Leaf peeping: Best places to see fall display
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Summit County's forecast for this weekend, sunny with highs in the 60s, offers the perfect temperatures for viewing the changing colors of the High Country foliage – seize the moment. This fall has showcased a spectacular display that is near its peak, scientists from the U.S. Forest Service say.
The first snow fall will cause most of the leaves to drop, so time is running out to see the beauty of fall in the mountains.
Boreas Pass Road in Breckenridge is a great place in the county to see aspen in their fall splendor.
Amateur photographer Cynthia James from Littleton said that she has been searching for the best fall displays in Colorado and "Boreas Pass is a must."
"Since moving to Colorado I've been scoping out places for pictures and Breckenridge is a great place to see fall colors right now," James said.
James, who was taking photos along the pass Thursday said "The fall colors aren't full fledged quite yet, but they're sporadic enough to see them across an outlook areas – it's only going to get more beautiful in the next couple of days."
Eaglesmere Lakes is another place to see fall colors for the active types – this great fall hike is about 7 miles round-trip, rated intermediate and appropriate for families and animals on leashes.
Highlights to this hike are the great vistas overlooking Lower Cataract Lake, views of Eagles Nest Peak and The Williams Fork Range that are home to spectacular fall foliage.
According to the Summit County Explorer, the trailhead is 16 miles north from Silverthorne on Highway 9. To reach the trailhead, turn left onto Heeney Road and go about 5.25 miles to County Road 1725. At this juncture turn left and continue for 2 miles until reaching the Eaglesmere Lakes Trailhead. Take the right fork and drive to the nearby parking area.
Though nature puts on a great show this time of year offering several places to see changing leaves, the biology behind the color changes is quite complicated.
To put it simply, trees put on their fall display because of the length of night, temperatures and different leaf pigments that come into play.
According to the U.S. Forest Service, the leaves of certain trees and plants start changing colors as we enter fall because we have shorter days and longer nights. Once this sets in, a biochemical process in each leaf starts changing the leaves colors to the dazzling golds, oranges and reds seen in aspen leaves and other trees and shrubs.
The ideal conditions for the best display of these colors features a temperate climate with warm days and cooler but not freezing nights.
A color palette needs pigments, and there are three types that are involved in autumn color:
"Carotenoids" produce the yellow, orange, and brown colors in hues found in corn, carrots and daffodils.
"Anthocyanin" pigments give color to cranberries, red apples, concord grapes, blueberries, cherries, strawberries and plums.
Carotenoid and anthocyanin pigments are activated when autumn brings longer nights and cooler temperatures.
Chlorophylln gives leaves their green color, but photosynthesis, the chemical reaction that enables plants to use sunlight to manufacture sugars for food, ceases and enters a dormant period during the winter, explains Terry Collins from the Forest Service office in Golden.
"The appearance of fall colors shifts each year due to weather," Collins said. "Heavy cloud cover causes leaves to stay green longer, high evening temperatures cause cells to burn accumulated sugars, so less red and purple pigments are formed and yellow and orange are the predominant colors. Stress from drought and wind cause leaves to drop prematurely."
The ideal conditions are warm, sunny days and cool nights with little wind or drought stress, he added.
For more information visit http://www.fs.fed.us/fallcolors.
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Utilising a common data highway may, however, impact upon business and clinical risk. Therefore, careful consideration should be given to the extent to which provisions are incorporated into the system to ensure adequate reliability and resilience of the various services so as to minimise such risks.
Data cables used for bedhead services will normally be independent of the main healthcare facilitys primary IT network (unless otherwise directed by the healthcare facilitys IT manager), but they will interface with the network at appropriate strategic points.
Relevant protocols and test procedures to achieve the required functional transparency and resilience should be agreed between the bedhead services equipment supplier(s) and healthcare facilitys IT manager before the interface(s) is/are installed.
Entertainment (radio and TV) and communication (telephony and Internet access) services may be provided through a low-energy digital device at each bedhead. Such devices should not be used as the primary control for any patient and staff calls, but should be capable of being used for patient health education and for menu-ordering in addition to other services as described in the list at the bottom of this page. When required, the device should also be capable of being interfaced with the hospital information systems and IT network for use by hospital staff and to reduce installation and maintenance costs.
Prior to installation, all facilities that utilise common data infrastructure systems should be adequately assessed with regard to their potential effect on other hospital systems, particularly in respect of any capacity, security and safety implications. Suitable provisions should be incorporated to ensure that such systems operate safely and reliably, with no unwanted interference being incurred sufficient to cause operational difficulties between systems.
Appropriate input and output interfaces should be provided as necessary to ensure a fully operational system in compliance with manufacturers requirements and with functionality as specified elsewhere in the project specification.
Once installed, the capacity of a data cable is potentially considerable, so expansion of facilities in the ward or nursing area becomes possible with the appropriate input and output interfaces.
Some features that may be developed are:
- Bed status: to indicate whether the bed is occupied, vacant, in the course of preparation or out of commission.
- Patient monitoring: to allow the output signals from medical apparatus to be multiplexed onto the data line. This may take the form of a simple on/off medical alarm or a constant reporting of varying analogue signals to indicate a changing medical condition.
- Menu selection: to enable the patient to view and select their choice of meal.
- Patient details: to enable the entry of a patients name, address and all relevant personal information at the bedside.
- Medication requirements: to display all medical details to the nurse or doctor at the bedhead.
- Patient entertainment: Internet etc.
- Communication: Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony.
- Patient administration systems: to provide full clinical access to the healthcare facilitys clinical data IT network at the bedside.
- Door access and security: to allow the nurse-call system to be integrated with CCTV and door-access systems.
- Clinical report displays: to enable laboratory results, X-rays and computed tomography (CT) scans to be displayed to clinical staff at the bedside.
- Administration of drugs: to facilitate the accurate discharging and recording of drugs administered at the bedside.


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December 2011
Monthly Archive
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Posted by TheShot on 09 Dec 2011 | Filed under: Café Society, Foreign Brew
We'd apologize for the lack of postings this past month, but that's partly the result of good editing. The trouble is that we typically board up our windows and hide from most coffee blogs this time of year, as most become inundated by insipid annual round-ups of coffee gift ideas to help cash in on the season.
Not that we're into role playing a disgruntled Scrooge McCafé for the holidays. We love coffee. But loving coffee and willingly wading through endless coffee advertisements, Clockwork-Orange-style, are two entirely different things.
However, like the trusty annual newspaper article on how different cultures around the world celebrate Christmas, one recent exception caught our eyes. It's an article on how different cultures around the world like their coffee: A Caffeine Addict's Guide to the World | Travel Deals, Travel Tips, Vacation Ideas | Budget Travel. Argentina, Spain, Austria, Mexico, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Finland, Japan… each location comes with a description of a unique local coffee experience, a tip for trying it, and a suggested place for it. Plus a slideshow to boot.
But before we forget: a public service message to all wannabe coffee journalists out there. Please don't make the hackneyed, lazy, and bogus equality between coffee and caffeine. One of the most offensive things a journalist can do to insult a coffee lover is to equate them to a "caffeine addict". We've always felt this is the equivalent of calling wine lovers "alcoholics".
So, please… just don't. It's insulting, it's unimaginative, and it's been beaten to death. It makes you sound like some overly perky, bubble-gum-chewing dolt writing for the high school newspaper. And we promise we won't be offended by the term "coffee lovers".


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The Hope College chapter of Mortar Board received multiple honors during the society's recent national conference, including recognition as the top chapter in the country.
The Hope College chapter of Mortar Board received multiple honors during the society's recent national conference, including recognition as the top chapter in the country.
The chapter received the national Mortar Board organization's highest honor for a collegiate chapter, the Ruth Weimer Mount Chapter Excellence Award, during the 2010 Mortar Board National Conference, held on Friday-Sunday, July 23-25, in Chicago, Ill. The chapter also received its fourth consecutive Golden Torch Award, eight Project Excellence Awards, and an additional commendation for having been the top chapter in the national "Reading is Leading" Virtual Book Drive in both 2008 and 2009.
The Ruth Weimer Mount Chapter Excellence Award is presented to the chapter that exemplifies the national college honor society's ideals of scholarship, leadership and service in the most outstanding manner. The recipient is chosen on the basis of a variety of criteria, including chapter operations, campus visibility, member participation, advising, communications and chapter projects.
The Hope chapter's recognition as the winner this year follows having been among the finalists for the award annually since 2007 and having received a variety of other national awards from the society the past four years.
Hope has received the national "Golden Torch Award" every year since 2007, including this year. Only 22 chapters received the recognition this year.
The Alcor Chapter has also been a leader in receiving multiple "Project Excellence Awards" each year, and received eight of the awards both last year and this year. This year's awards recognized the chapter's First Book Alumni Book Drive; Last Lecture Series; CASA pumpkin carving, stocking stuffing, tutoring and Borders gift cards; Relay for Life fundraising for the American Cancer Society; full college scholarships for eight students in Tanzania; Mortar Board Project Week; the "Jungle Safari" Disability Prom; the Kiva Project to loan funds to support primary education in Sierra Leone; and the Wearing of the Blue Brunch for freshman and sophomore students named to the dean's list. A total of 38 Project Excellence Awards were presented to 19 chapters this year.
The Hope chapter led the nation in Mortar Board's Virtual Book Drive in both 2008 and 2009, for which the chapter received the "First Book Hero Award Plaque" during the conference. The national effort has raised a total of $50,000, of which $12,000 was raised by Hope's Alcor Chapter.
In addition to the other honors that the chapter has received in the past four years, co-advisor Dr. Dianne Portfleet, adjunct associate professor of English, received one of three national Excellence in Advising Awards during the conference in 2007.
Mortar Board is a national honor society that recognizes college seniors for outstanding achievement in scholarship, leadership and service, and provides opportunities for continued leadership development, promotes service to college and universities, and encourages lifelong contributions to the global community. Since its founding in 1918, the organization has grown from the four founding chapters to 228 collegiate chapters with nearly 250,000 initiated members across the nation.
The Alcor chapter has existed at Hope since the 1936-37 academic year, although it did not become part of the national Mortar Board organization until 1961. The chapter had 37 members during the 2009-10 school year, and the president was Abbie Gowman, a 2010 graduate from Rochester Hills.
Portfleet co-advises the chapter with Martie Bultman, who is the wife of Hope College president James E. Bultman.
Those attending the conference on behalf of Hope were Portfleet; Andrea Eddy, a 2010 graduate from Coloma who was the 2009-10 Hope Mortar Board webmaster; Kelsey Bos, a senior from Holland who is the incoming Hope Mortar Board president; and Phoebe Burtless-Creps, a senior from Adrian who is the incoming Hope Mortar Board treasurer.


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Well as I say, it's a long time since I had a working telly... Still, that is a travesty. But I thought educational programming was part of the BBC's remit? Have they been shunted somewhere else?
...It's basically been cut up into tiny chunks and hidden away at a time where no-one could possibly notice it. I think Channel 4 did pretty much the same thing with their schools programming.
Ice Road TruckersI did watch the first few episodes of "Gold Rush Alaska" as well, but I realised after three episodes that I wanted them all to fail, so I stopped.
The same goes for The Amazing Race as well
Is that about white people
I used to be obsessed with Lovejoy. I had a painting of him that a friend's mum did for me, as well as the Ian McShane album (on cassette and vinyl) and loads of Jonathan Gash's Lovejoy novels. I hated Eric Catchpole so much; just thinking about him now makes my blood boil. The series ended on such a sad note too, with Lovejoy being whisked away in a helicopter by hoodlums whilst the lovely Charlotte was waiting for him at the altar. *sighs*
True fact: Chris Jury (who played Eric) was on the 'fake shortlist' to play the Seventh Doctor. They'd pretty much decided to give the job to Sylvester McCoy, but had to go through the procedure of auditioning several actors, one of whom was apparently Jury.
After being a staunch anti-reality TV show person (bar one or two exceptions) I got sucked into watching the US Survivor. I could blame it on the OH and say I just watch it for her, but that wold be a lie. They pick the casts well (there are people with 'personality' but they seem to avoid just going for the whacky ones and find a good dynamic) and the show really does work as an examination of human nature. Even the game show aspects (challenges etc.) are kept to a minimum and the keep the premise pretty basic.The same goes for The Amazing Race as wellGod help me, I'm sticking up for reality TV shows(And going by his avatar, I'd wager Ja'Moke is also a Survivor fan...)
I follow Survivor through The Soup, so I just wondered, does the show mention what sort of federal agent the "former federal agent" actually was?
By the way, what's wrong with Eric? It's years since I saw the show, but I just remember him being 'the dull one' out of the gang.
Can anyone remember the episode where Lady Jane agrees to let The Hothouse Flowers saty at Felsham Hall and one of the band had to sell his valuable antique harp? Ha ha!
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The files Authadmin.dll / Workgrpdomnt4.dll are required when the server is configured to use MSLogon authentication. If either one is missing, the following error message will popup:
The problem is, when the server is running as service, this message is shielded and not visible. That's similar to the case "VNC Error" of NO AUTHENTICATION Server. I believe this may probably cause some similar problem such as prevent the shutdown of uvnc_service.
Another minor problem is: the information of this error box is not correct.
The missing file should be Authadmin.dll and/or Workgrpdomnt4.dll, but not auth.dll
Yet one more problem, I know missing Authadmin.dll / Workgrpdomnt4.dll will cause the above-mentioned error (popup at server pc), but the result are different:
missing Authadmin.dll -- the message popup & click OK -- viewer show connection is rejected
missing Workgrpdomnt4.dll -- the message popup & click OK -- connection is still able be established.
I have no idea what is going on.
The tests are done using 10961 (May 3) server on WinXP Prof.


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A football match, youth and gender assemblies as well as the launch of a new report marked the beginning of the Sixth Session of the World Urban Forum which kicked off in this scenic Italian city of Naples at the weekend.
The World Urban Forum was established by the United Nations to examine one of the most pressing problems facing the world today: rapid urbanization and its impact on communities, cities, economies, climate change and policies.
Organised jointly by UN-Habitat, the Government of Italy, the Campania Region and the City of Naples, the theme for this year's meeting is The Urban Future. Over 3,000 participants registered for the premier conference on cities and urban issues.
The four focus areas for discussion are: Urban Planning: Institutions and Regulations, including the improvement of Quality of Life; Equity and Prosperity: Distribution of Wealth and Opportunities; Productive Cities: Competitive and Innovative Cities and Urban Mobility, Energy & Environment.
On Saturday 1 September, an entertaining but one sided football match kicked off the Forum as a team from the United Nation faced off with lads from Scampia, a locality of Naples battling for the Habitat Cup. The Italian boys were in a different class hammering the cup sponsors 6-2.
The Habitat Cup is a new initiative of UN-Habitat to promote urban development and youth empowerment through sports.
The debate is underway with nearly 1,500 people signing up for the online e-Debates at www.worldurbanforum.org The online platform gives people who are not be able to travel to Naples the chance to join the debate while also using the opinions given to shape the Forum discussions.
The Forum is one of the most open and inclusive gatherings of its kind on the international stage. It brings together participants from all over the world representing governments, academia, civil society and the private sector as partners working for better cities. Previous meetings were held in Nairobi, Kenya in 2002, Barcelona in 2004, Vancouver 2006, Nanjing in 2008 and Rio de Janeiro in 2010.
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WBC featherweight champion "Mr." Gary Russell Jr. comes from a boxing family. Trained by his father, Gary Russell Sr., alongside his three brothers (all also named Gary), Russell quickly proved a force to be reckoned with. In 2005, he became the first fighter to win the United States and Golden Gloves titles before the age of 17. He faced some adversity in having to leave the Beijing Olympics in 2008 after an unsuccessful weight cut, but since turning pro has rolled up a 27-1 record with 16 knockouts in his eight year professional boxing career.
The 28-year-old southpaw won the featherweight title in March of 2015, knocking out Jhonny Gonzalez in the fourth round to become the champ before successfully defending his belt 13 months later in April of 2016 with a second round knockout of Patrick Hyland.
Now, Russell Jr. gets set to defend his belt once again on May 20th when he takes on the Colombian-born Oscar "El Guerrero" Escandon live on SHOWTIME Sports from the MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland.
The third time's the charm for these two fighters after injuries, first to Russell in November 2015, then to Escandon in March of this year, pushed back the bout. With fight night a little over a week away, we caught up with the featherweight champ to get his thoughts on the upcoming fight and fighting near his hometown.
This fight was pushed back due to Oscar's back injury, how have you been using the extra time to prepare for the fight?
Very productively. I never really worried about… I didn't worry about the fact that the fight got pushed back or postponed. I tell people all the time that when you have two elite athletes, that are physically pushing themselves to the limit, injuries occur. It happens. Most camps are maybe six to eight weeks long. In this particular case, the camp was maybe 10 to 11 weeks. Whenever you have someone that has that much time to prepare for no one else but you, that's a dangerous opponent regardless of what the situation is. But, it gave us the opportunity and the time to actually preserve our bodies, preserve our hands and actually give our bodies the chance to recuperate the way we wanted them to.
From that perspective, yes he's had more time to prepare for you, but the same goes for you too. I imagine that's been helpful in a way.
That's right. Honestly though, we never really focus on too much of what our opponent does. We're focused on what it is that we're doing, what we're going to do, that's what it's about. We're 100 percent ready. I feel as though to be complete and to be whole as an individual, to be a great fighter, you have to be versatile. You have to have the ability to make the necessary adjustments no matter what your opponent brings from across the ring. We're ready.
This fight is taking place at the MGM National Harbor in Maryland, and you're from the DC area. What's it going to be like to fight close to your hometown?
It's going to be cool. We never really tend to magnify the event. When you magnify the event or focus on the accolades and stuff like that, you tend to take away from the focus of what really matters. However, I think that it is cool that, when the event occurs, that my next door neighbor, the mailman or mailwoman, the people that blew the horn when they saw me jogging in the neighborhood, will have the opportunity to be in the building when the event takes place.
A couple of other people close to you will be a part of the event, right? Two of your younger brothers are fighting that night as well.
Yes indeed, I've got two of them fighting on that night. Gary Antonio Russell, who's 7-0, hopefully he will move to 8-0. And Gary Antuanne Russell, the 2016 Olympian, who will be having his professional debut on that particular day. Also, what a lot of people don't know is, that's actually my father's (Gary Russell Sr.) birthday as well. It's going to be an amazing event on a day that means the most to me. It's the day that my father was placed on this planet and put in my life. It's a tremendous day for me, regardless of whether boxing was occurring or not, and I'm just looking forward to being part of it.
Fair to say you and your brothers are looking to give your dad a little extra birthday present this year then?
Of course man, of course. That's the end objective regardless of what the situation is, but, it is a little bit of added incentive because of my father's birthday.
When you've watched your opponent for this fight, Oscar Escandon, what do you see from him? What does he bring to this fight?
He's a warrior. He's a gladiator. He's a straight forward, rough, tough, very physical fighter. He's going to bring the best that he can possibly bring on that night and it's our job to be able to make the necessary adjustments and find the kinks in his armor. I feel as though we're ready to do just that.
He does have a slight reach advantage on you, not much, but slight. How do you look to counteract that?
It doesn't matter to me at all. Even though he has a reach advantage, I believe that my hand speed, my punching power, my ring generalship and my boxing IQ will ultimately be the reason that I'm going to leave the fight victorious.
As you get ready for next week, what do you say to the fight fans in terms of what they can expect from this bout next Saturday night?
Excitement… explosiveness… excitement. That's what we're going to bring to the ring.
Premier Boxing Champions' quadruple header of matches headlined by Russell vs. Escandon airs Saturday night, May 20th, on Showtime live at 6 p.m. Eastern Time.


text: Show Hide image World 27 June 2013 Sometimes, in the evening light, Istanbul feels too eternal to be ruffled by modern politics Jeremy Bowen's Diary. Sign-up I can't think of many countries other than Lebanon where you can eat and drink in bars that range from Mediterranean elegance to rooftop noise and bling, watch cabaret in a nightclub carved out of a stately old underground cinema and then set out in the morning to explore a conflict that goes back to the death of the Prophet Muhammad. That was how I found myself, a little queasy, wishing I'd had more sleep, in the back of a big American car hurtling along the bouncy road that runs north through the Beqaa Valley to Baalbek. I looked through the haze across the border into Syria from outside a Christian village, picking leaves from a rosemary hedge and sniffing them in the hope that they might have some restorative quality. Down in Syria, a grey slash across the landscape, were the remains of the city of al-Qusayr. It was the rebels' main hub for smuggling weapons and men from Lebanon into their war. Al-Qusayr fell to the Syrian regime thanks to the intervention of Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia, enemy of Israel and the United States, and indispensable ally to President Bashar al-Assad and Iran. Old wounds The Syrian civil war – and Hezbollah's unapologetic promise to do more for President Assad, if necessary – is shaking the fault line that divides Shia and Sunni Muslims, which was why I was in the Beqaa. As far away as Bahrain, a government minister told me that people could feel the sectarian trouble in Syria in their own streets and back alleys. Shias and Sunnis are a bit like Catholics and Protestants, not in their beliefs but because an old dispute has been loaded with centuries of history and sometimes blood. The schism in Islam goes back to a row over the succession after the death of Muhammad in 632. Hezbollah and Iran are Shia; President Assad, like most prominent members of his regime, is an Alawite, a sect that is a Shia offshoot. Most of the rebel fighters in Syria are Sunnis. Some are allied to al-Qaeda. After the blow Hezbollah inflicted on Syr - ia's armed opposition, Sunni Arab authorities lined up to condemn Lebanon's latest fighting export. The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia called Hezbollah "loathsome and sectarian" and gave his approval to a call from Qatar by Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, one of the bestknown Muslim scholars, for Sunnis to fight a holy war in Syria. This conflict is turning into a proxy war between a Sunni bloc, led by Saudi Arabia and allied to the US, and a Shia bloc, led by Iran. Storm warning Not many minutes after we drove away from the statue of the Madonna and Child that looks down on the border with Syria, four men were ambushed and shot dead nearby. They were all Shias and two were from the powerful Jaafar clan. The killing seemed to be retaliation for the death of a prominent Sunni earlier in the month. I asked a peaceable local man what he thought would happen next. "They're going to look for Sunnis to kill." When he went out on an errand, he took two phones and stuck a handgun in the pocket of his trousers. People carry guns in bad times in the Beqaa in the way that others in gentler places carry umbrellas. You never know when and where the storm will come. You just know it's on the way. The map of protest My week started in Istanbul, with the antigovernment protesters in Gezi Park and Taksim Square. In the past few years I have spent quite a bit of time in the main squares of cities dotted around North Africa, the Levant and the eastern Mediterranean: Tahrir Square in Cairo, Green Square in Tripoli, Martyrs' Square in Beirut and now Taksim in Istanbul. That, by the way, is where I would stop when it comes to making comparisons between what's been happening in Turkey and the uprisings and civil commotion that are still sweeping through Arab countries. Turkey's human rights record is poor. The craven selfcensorship of some of the country's broadcasters and newspapers shows how much isn't right here. Turkish democracy has flaws, like Britain's and America's. Yet there are elections and laws. When the riot police were tear-gassing their way into Taksim, they made the mistake of violently breaking up a demonstration outside Istanbul's main court building. They arrested 45 lawyers. As soon as they were in the police station, the lawyers hit their captors with such an array of legal rulings and precedents that the police offered to release them straight away. That would not have happened in Mub - arak's Egypt or Gaddafi's Libya. What has been happening in Istanbul and Ankara is shocking enough for the Turkish people and their friends, but for reporters from the Middle East who spend much of their working lives dealing with men with guns and beards a whole layer of pressure just wasn't there. Out of time In Istanbul, sometimes you get the feeling that the great business of the city goes on whatever the distractions of the prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. It's a time lord of a city, regenerating itself, from Byzantium to Constantinople to Istanbul, too eternal to be ruffled by modern politics. On the night of some of the worst clashes in Taksim, the BBC team was marooned in the building – a bakery – where we had a balcony for live broadcasts. Most of the demonstrators were non-violent but the men from the satellite company wouldn't unlock the door, because they thought that a group of anarchists who were taking on the police outside might get in to wreck their equipment. When we eventually emerged in our helmets and gas masks, bank windows had been smashed and cash machines vandalised; the street was clogged with burning barricades, tear gas and smoke. It was like a film set for a dystopian disaster movie. But the next evening, during a lull, I strolled in the fading light to the same street. The rubble had gone; so had the barricades and the broken glass. Restaurants were open and Turks and a few tourists were getting down to the serious business of having dinner. Jeremy Bowen is the BBC's Middle East editor. He tweets at @BowenBBC. The paperback of his book "The Arab Uprisings" will be published on 18 July Subscribe For more great writing from our award-winning journalists subscribe for just £1 per month! This article first appeared in the 24 June 2013 issue of the New Statesman, Mr Scotland SUBSCRIBE More


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DOVER — When Susie French took a year off from basketball during her freshman year at the University of Maine, she realized just how much she had missed the sport — and Central Maine Community College is happy she felt that way.
French has been all over the court in her first year of playing basketball for Central Maine as a sophomore. Eleven games into the season, the Mustangs are 9-2 with French averaging a team-high 19.3 points and 6.5 rebounds per game. She's shooting 48.5 percent from the floor and 43.5 percent on 3-point pointers.
"She is the most versatile player I have ever been around," said Mustangs coach Andrew Morong. "She has the ball-handling skills of a point guard and the ability to shoot like a shooting guard."
French has been on the basketball court for as long as she can remember, from her elementary-school days in Greenland to her days at Portsmouth High School, where she was a first-team All-Division II player as a senior. She was recruited by a handful of small colleges in the area, but did not find any of them suitable for her academic desires.
French spent 18 months away from her sport when she attended the University of Maine. While there, she kept her skills sharp by playing pickup games at the school facilities, but decided Orono was not her destiny, either.
She decided to transfer to CMCC, which is located in Auburn, Maine, and enroll in the justice studies program. She added in her application that she was interested in playing for the women's basketball team, and Morong took notice.
The Mustangs' fast-paced playing style was the most difficult hurdle in French's transition back to competitive basketball. After she played forward for Portsmouth, Morong placed her at guard to utilize her quickness and shooting ability.
"I had to play a lot of forward for my years (at Portsmouth), so that helped a lot because now I can bounce in between both positions," French said.
Her height also gives her an edge with shooting and defending. At 5-foot-11, she is the tallest player on her team.
The transition back into the sport following a one-year hiatus was relatively smooth for French. To Morong, it did not appear that she had been away from the sport for long.
"She came in with such an open mind and I think she had gained a new respect for the game," said Morong. "The situation that she came into was a perfect fit for her. We're a big family and we have a lot of fun off the court, and I think that was what she needed."
Averaging 27 points, 6.5 rebounds, 5.0 steals and 3.5 assists in two victories over University of Maine-Augusta and St. Joseph's, French was selected as the Player of the Week in the Yankee Conference recently, as well as UFCAA Player of the Week.
"She earned the respect of not only the coaching staff and her teammates, but of everyone at the school," Morong said.
What French likes best about her role on the team is the camaraderie she has with her teammates.
"We all hang out (and) we all see each other around school," French said. "You have friends right off the bat."
Morong knows he can also use French to guard their opponents' best players.
"She doesn't take a possession off and that means the girl she's guarding can't either," Morong said. "We can play her for 40 minutes if we need to."


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Guadalajara was named after the Spanish city of Guadalajara. It is located in the western pacific area of Mexico. It is the capital and largest city of the state of Jalisco. It is the second largest city in Mexico. Guadalajara thrives on industry and is also a cultural center. It is the home of Mariachi music and hosts the International Film Festival of Guadalajara. Its nickname is "The Pearl of the West."
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Video: Alton Brown Makes Bacon in Waffle Iron
This Good Eats segment from October is full of breakfast-making pointers, but if you jump to 3:20, you'll get one of the juiciest tips of all: to prepare bacon in a waffle iron. Alton Brown cuts the rashers in half then throws them onto the center of the iron, where they sizzle for a total of five minutes. The end result looks mouthwateringly beautiful. You can either save the bacon grease trapped in the iron's little nooks for flavoring hash browns or of course, baconify your next batch of waffles. Watch the video, after the jump.
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The American Library Association has published its annual "State of America's Libraries" report which shows increased library usage without an increase in funding. Key points in the report include:
- Internet use continues to expand at public libraries, which have seen double-digit growth since 2007 in the on-line services they make available to their patrons.
- Ninety-six percent of Americans feel that school libraries are an essential part of the education experience because they provide resources to students and teachers and because they give every child the opportunity to read and learn.
- America's academic libraries are experiencing increased use, both physical and virtual. The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) reports academic libraries have more than 20.3 million visits per week (1.5 million more than two years earlier), answered more than 1.1 million reference questions, and made more than 498,000 presentations to groups.
- America's libraries continue their efforts to support minorities and other underserved or disadvantaged populations.
- Library construction fared better in 2009 than many expected during the recession, especially given the unreliability of funding for programming, materials, and hours.
The Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library not only serves students, faculty and staff at the University of Utah, but is also a Regional Medical Library (Midcontinental Region) in the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, serving six states in the heart of the western U.S. Library staff field reference inquiries from Utah and its surrounding states, as well as Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri.


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News & Notes: Game 52
Monday, May 30, 2011 (7:15 p.m.) – Knights Stadium
Radio: WWKB AM 1520, bisons.com
Buffalo Bisons (23-28, 5th(-8.0), North)
LHP Mark Cohoon (NR)
Charlotte Knights (22-26, 3rd(-4.5), South)
RHP Cameron Bayne (NR)
TODAY'S GAME: Tonight, the Bisons take on the Charlotte Knights in the first game of a four-game series from Knights Stadium (7:15 p.m.). Today's game begins an eight-game roadtrip as the Herd will also travel to Gwinnett, June 3-6. Buffalo has won three straight games and recently completed a 5-3 homestand against the Knights and Braves.
VS. THE KNIGHTS: The Bisons and Knights split a four-game series at Coca-Cola Field, May 21-24. This week, Buffalo will be looking for its first series win at Knight Stadium since the 2005 season. Since then, the Bisons have just two splits and a 6-14 record at the home of the Charlotte Knights.
NEW STARTER: LHP MARK COHOON will make his Triple-A debut tonight for the Bisons. The 23-year old was 1-3 with a 3.91ERA in nine games with Double-A Binghamton this year. He worked five or more innings in eight of his nine starts and allowed three of fewer runs in seven of those outings. Cohoon was a combined 12-5 with a 2.57ERA and 131 strikeouts in 26 starts between Binghamton and Single-A Savannah last season.
BUSY WEEKEND: The Bisons collected their first series win of the season by taking three games in their back-to-back doubleheaders against Gwinnett this past weekend. The Herd bullpen stepped up by allowing just one run on 11 hits and 12 strikeouts in 12.0 innings of work (including a spot start by RHP JOHN LUJAN). RHP MANNY ACOSTA earned a pair of saves as the only pitcher that was used in multiple games.
WITH A BANG: OF LUCAS DUDA homered in back-to-back days this weekend. He hit his fourth of the season in game one on Saturday and then added a solo shot in game two of Sunday In his last 14 games at Triple-A, Duda has hit .333 (15-45) with three doubles, five homers and nine RBI.
ODDITIES: Some odd numbers came out of the Bisons doubleheader sweep on Sunday. On the day, the Bisons were a combined 2-2 with runners in scoring position with one of the hits a grand slam by INF VALENTINO PASCUCCI in game one. The Herd did not leave a man on base or have an at-bat with a runner in scoring position in game two's 2-1 win.
METS UPDATE: The Mets (24-28) pounded out nine runs on 17 hits in a 9-5 win over Philadelphia yesterday. INF JOSES REYES had four hits and his third, two-triple game of the season. Former Bison C JOSH THOLE added three hits and three RBI. The Mets host the Pirates tonight at 7:10 p.m.


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DocuTech announced in February that the median closing cost among the company's nationwide lender base decreased by 0.5 percent on a baseline from April to November 2012. The findings are the first of a quarterly tracking effort to highlight how changes in the mortgage industry are impacting the cost for consumers to close loans.
In April 2012, the median closing costs of all loans with disclosure and closing documents generated through DocuTech's system was 3.112 percent of the loan value. Following a small uptick in May, reaching 3.176 percent, the median closing cost dropped each month settling into a low during November at 2.521 percent.
"With the many fees and points associated with closing costs, as well as constant regulatory changes, the consumer is sometimes faced with higher settlement charges than they previously anticipated," said Scott K. Stucky, chief operating officer. "With the quarterly disclosure of these statistics, we seek to reveal various trends in settlement charges to highlight the upfront costs associated with closing loans and how industry changes impact the consumer."
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"A decrease in price when dealing with loans is never a bad thing," said Stucky. "This steady decline should ease the industry's level of uncertainty with the CFPB set to announce new rule requirements for the remainder of 2013."